Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Decrees Summarized: 1) The Premier will appoint from the Fascist militia the personnel of courts martial which will hereafter deal according to wartime military law with all who are charged with "political crimes"; 2) Political crimes are elaborately defined, embracing at one extreme, attempts upon the life of the Premier, and at the other "the spreading of exaggerated reports"; 3) Of other "new crimes" perhaps the most notable consists in belonging to an anti-Fascist organization of whatever sort, which will be punishable by imprisonment at the discretion of the court martial; 4) The death penalty (heretofore abrogated) will...
...beside fountains, how he rebounded from one girl to another, above all how he spent money- wasting it, throwing it away in pursefuls. "More like some prince than our son," said the mother in despair; but the father had not even objected when Jack rode off to war, preposterously martial, on a gelded roan. Early in the campaign Jack got a fever; he came home before the rest, yellow and thinner, with huge eyes. He could not sleep well now; Pietro Bernardone would hear him tossing on his bed (he lay on the top floor) and sometimes crying aloud...
...swung a right for Tunney's jaw. If that blow had connected the Dempsey-Tunney fight would have been remembered as the most sensational ten-round bout ever fought. Tunney ducked. Thirty seconds later, as the new heavyweight champion of the world, he was making a brief martial* address into the microphone, while cameras snapped. It was several minutes before the photographers remembered that there had been another man in the ring. They looked over their shoulders at a wet corner, but Dempsey had gone...
...swung a right for Tunney's jaw. If that blow had connected the Dempsey-Tunney fight would have been remembered as the most sensational ten-round bout ever fought. Tunney ducked. Thirty seconds later, as the new heavyweight champion of the world, he was making a brief martial* address into the microphone, while cameras snapped. It was several minutes before the photographers remembered that there had been another man in the ring. They looked over their shoulders at a wet corner, but Dempsey had gone...
...Martial law was declared. Food and water were secured. The Red Cross took charge...